Reviews
JEAN DE FLORETTE / MANON OF THE SPRING 4K Review: Two Films by Claude Berri
Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Yves Montand, and Emmanuelle Béart star, as neighbours turn nasty in the French countryside.
WARFARE Review: In the Belly of the War Beast
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland directed the anti-war picture from A24 Films.
Series Mania 2025 Review: PUTAIN Captures the Somber Drift of Adolescence
Created and written by Frederik Daem and directed by Deben Van Dam, the series is set against the backdrop of contemporary Brussels, offering a fragmented yet intimate study of adolescence.
NIGHT MOVES Gets the Criterion Treatment, Celebrating Its Dark Noir Brilliance
A Gene Hackman classic comes to 4K UHD from Criterion, and its sad perfection only hits harder since losing him earlier this year.
GUNSLINGERS Review: Come for Nicolas Cage, Stay If You Have 100 Minutes to Spare
Nicolas Cage, Stephen Dorff, and Heather Graham star in writer/director Brian Skiba's Western.
Series Mania 2025 Review: MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY, Fascism as a Burlesque Theatre
Director Joe Wright gives his Mussolini biopic a 'Les Miz' treatment in a burlesque political miniseries about the rise of fascism.
UGETSU 4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi's Masterpiece
Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS Review: Sad Eyes and the Ugly Rich
Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, Hoon Lee, and Lena Hall star in creator Jonathan Tropper's surly new series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
THE AMATEUR Review: First-time Spy vs. CIA Conspiracy
Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernthal, and Laurence Fishburne star in director James Hawes' action thriller.
SOME LIKE IT HOT Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-issues the Perfect Comedy
Some Like it Hot is one of those films that I can't remember not having seen; and yet, every time I watch it, it still feels fresh and funny. There is so much I learned from it for the first...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss
Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Faye Wong star in Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
REVOLVER Review: Character Story in a Smoldering Thriller
Jeon Do-yeon, Ji Chang-wook, and Lim Ji-yeon star in Oh Seung-uk's slow-burn thriller.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: VIDEOHEAVEN, Alex Ross Perry's Juggernaut Essay About Video-stores
Alex Ross Perry's new film is a video-essay in the style of Thom Andersen's seminal Los Angeles Plays Itself, in that it focuses on a place and location, and explores this place solely through deep analysis of footage from films...
Now Streaming: THE BONDSMAN, Diabolical Comedy Goes for the Gore with Gusto
Kevin Bacon becomes a bounty hunter for the Devil in Blumhouse Television's horror comedy series.
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND Review: Delightful Oddball Musical Drama
Win the national lottery once and you’d be considered one of the luckiest people currently alive. Win the national lottery twice and you’d be firmly in a reality-adjacent world where the whimsical isn’t just an abstract idea, but the...
GAZER Review: Atmospheric Neo-Noir Crumbles Under Its Own Style
Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) is already having a rough night, having just been fired from her gas station job, when it gets even more complicated as she starts to believe that she witnessed an act of violence. "Believe" is an operative...
FREAKY TALES Review: Four Freaky-ish Tales From The East Bay
A mysterious green fog leads to a wild week in the East Bay in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales. Narrated by legendary Oakland rapper, Too $hort, Freaky Tales is an interconnected anthology of bizarre, violent goings-on occurring over...
A MINECRAFT MOVIE Review: Blocked and Reported
Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge star in Warner Bros.' long-awaited adaptation of the videogame phenomenon.
PSYCHO THERAPY: THE SHALLOW TALE OF A WRITER WHO DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT A SERIAL KILLER Review: Reminiscent of a Fun 90s Indie Noir Comedy
Steve Buscemi, John Magaro, and Britt Lower star in director Tolga Karaçelik's film, which brims with absurdist humor.